Render Types

Glow

Glow amount is defined by material color and diffuse texture.

Lightmap

Basically a glow map. Requires an additional texture. The texture's alpha channel determines glow strength, rgb glow color and intensity. May actually be Detail.

See also: Lightmap discussion on GT

Scrolling

Scrolls the texture positively. To scroll in the other directions flip the texture coordinates.

Specular

Enables Specular. Specular Flag doesn't seem to be needed for it to work. Specular power is affected by material color and Specular Decay (gloss).

Glossmap

This uses the diffuse texture's alpha channel for specular intensity. Specular Color and Decay are used to determine specularity. Make sure the values are valid. If they are too low the specular might not appear. If the diffuse texture doesn't have an alpha channel specular will be turned off.

Chrome

Environment map. Gives the illusion of reflection on a surface. If no environment map is specified as Texture1 then the game will choose one dynamically at run time. If the object is static or does not move you should provide an environment map.

Animated

Animates UVs to loop through different UV positions on the texture. UVs should be mapped to the first cell and not the whole texture. Cells have to be square and will be calculated automatically from the number of frames.
The number of cells always habe to be square (4, 9, 16, etc).

See also: Render Animated discussion on GT

Ice

Ice.

Sky

Sky.

Water

Water.

Detail

Tiles a detail texture. Requires an additional texture (detail texture). The detail map should have an average intensity of about 0.5, which insures that the overall brightness of the object will not be affected.
May actually be Lightmap.

2 Scroll

2 Scroll.

Rotate

Rotate.

Glow Rotate

Glow rotate.

Planar Reflection

Planar reflection.

Glow Scroll

Glow scroll.

Glow 2 Scroll

Glow 2 scroll.

Curved Reflection

Curved reflection.

Normalmap Fade

Normal map fade.

Normalmap Inv Fade

Normal map inv fade.

Ice Reflection

Ice reflection.

Ice Refraction

Models bend the light (see Bothan Spy). Model behaves as a transparent object but the transparency is distorted. Alpha channel of the diffuse is used to control the opacity. Requires an additional bump texture which controls amount of distortion. A refraction object can have an optional environment map associated with it.

See also: Ice Refraction discussion on GT

Emboss

Emboss. Requires an additional texture. Purpose uncertain. Might control specular.

Wireframe

Wireframe.

Energy

Makes the texture/material throb.

Afterburner

Afterburner.

Bumpmap

Requires an additional texture (greyscale bumpmap or normalmap). The bumpmap needs a .option file containing -format bump. Specular flag should be enabled for better effect.

See also: Bumpmap tutorial on GT

Bumpmap + Glossmap

Requires an additional texture (greyscale bumpmap or normalmap). The bumpmap needs a .option file containing -format bump. Optional texture which controls the specular intensity through it's alpha channel. Specular flag should be enabled for better effect.

See also: Bumpmap tutorial on GT

Teleportal

Teleportal.

Multistate

Multistate.

Shield

Shield.